The Canary Islands

The Canary Islands are a group of islands Spain the most famous and popular in the world, located off the north-western coast of the continent of Africa, the Canary Islands consist of 17 island of the Spanish Autonomous 7 islands of them are considered main islands and the rest are small islands, fly to the Canary Islands a number of names including the name of the islands of the happy .

The beaches of the Canary Islands and the natural attractions make it a major tourist destination for more than 12 million visitors each year, especially the islands of Tenerife and Fuerteventura Lanzarote and Gran Canaria, and the Canary Islands have a subtropical climate with hot summers and long winters and moderately warm due to its high mountains in the Canary Islands, considered a privileged location for astronomical observation .

The total area of the Canary Islands about 7493 sq km total population in 2011 is about 2 million and 117 thousand inhabitants and the official language of the Canary Islands is the Spanish for the capital city of the Canary Islands the Permanent two cities as the capital of the Canary Islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is considered the Las Palmas is the largest of the Canary Islands, the Canary Islands is the euro, the majority of the immigrant population from Spain, Portugal, Italy .

The Canary Islands are seven main islands are volcanic in origin and some volcanoes are still active until now and is considered the Canary Islands is the only place in Spain that was recorded volcanic eruptions in modern times .

When you think of the name of the Canary Islands planning to mind that yellow bird small but the island's name is derived from the Latin language and means island of the dogs, and one of the legends about that topic that the original inhabitants of those islands they were crossing the sea dogs are without God and they were saying stuffs that word to treat them as sacred when they visited the Roman island for the first time called the Canary Islands .

The Canary Islands, specifically the island of Tenerife which is the biggest island in terms of population and is a tourist destination and the first of the Canary Islands that tourists is Mount Teide which is the third largest volcano in the world which is the biggest mountain in Spain, the area of the island of Tenerife 2034 square kilometres and a population of approximately 907 thousand inhabitants .

Famous for the Canary Islands kind of types of the sport of wrestling and the struggle of the Canary and the history of that sport to the year 1420, and became the sport of the local folklore of the Canary Islands, and other fun stuff, too, in the Canary Islands scuba diving trip to enjoy one of the largest turtles in the world and is of an endangered species the total length of the adult male of that turtle nearly three feet, and age ranges between 47 - 67 years .